Unfavorable opinion of Smith and Wessons
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Longer ago than I care to admit my departments range officer made the flat statement that the Model 15 was the ideal handgun for all police officers everywhere. I replied that it was a fine sidearm. He retorted that no, it wasn't just fine, it was perfect. That was 2 or 3 range sessions before another officer's Model 15 locked up after the first 6 rounds because it had not been cleaned or inspected since the last qualification. A combination of verdigris, lint, rain and a partially unthreaded ejector rod combined to prevent the cylinder form opening.
This did nothing to change my opinion of either the Model 15, (which is a fine sidearm and fired six shots successfully even after being subjected to gross abuse and was able to fire the rest of the course after the initial 6 empties were hammered out with a wooden mallet and a brush run through the chambers) or the range officer, who was a liar, a braggart, a pervert and my superior.
Sounds like he procreated more than we realized.
This did nothing to change my opinion of either the Model 15, (which is a fine sidearm and fired six shots successfully even after being subjected to gross abuse and was able to fire the rest of the course after the initial 6 empties were hammered out with a wooden mallet and a brush run through the chambers) or the range officer, who was a liar, a braggart, a pervert and my superior.
Sounds like he procreated more than we realized.
walkin' trails
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It usually took a lot of dirt and lint to bind up a Smith revolver. I've seen ejector rods coming unscrewed on others revolvers, but never experienced it on one of my own. On the other hand, I've seen clean Ruger GP100s lock up after 25-30 rounds of magnums on a qualification course and have to cool down before continuing. The only S&W revolver I had lock up was a 940, an I think that was an exception rather than the rule, as I never had such problems with any J-frame 38s.
rcinma
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To me S&W ruined it's latest generation of guns when it caved-in to the politicians and added the silly internal locks (not unlike Kimber ruined an otherwise well-built 1911 with their extra internal pieces).
There is a reason why the price of the pre-lock revolvers shot so high.
There is a reason why the price of the pre-lock revolvers shot so high.
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We all have an opinion. Mostly it's better kept to one's self. I have both Smiths and Glocks and have shot both extensively. Nothing wrong with either brand. Both fine handguns. I am also a firearms instructor and it's a rare thing that I put down a students handgun. If it goes bang when it's supposed to and doesn't go bang if it's not supposed to, hits the target reasonably at reasonable ranges and the person is comfortable with it then it's fine. Smith's and Glocks both qualify.
Superflywimpy
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Well SInce I own 1 glock out my whole collection and the rest being Smith ,It's hard to say anything bad about Smith. I have a 1st generation model 59 with over9k rounds down the barrel and it never let me down not once. I used it and abused it and untill recently it looked like a ugly dog. But that has changed since I like it so much I had it gunkoted in black with the bushing and barrel gunkoted in gun metal and the black plastic grips were so scratched I was going to change them. But the guy that did the work saved them bt gunkoting them gun metal and spatering them with black. Frame is still tight and shoots as good as it ever did.......wait was I suppose to have a bad opinon about smith...oops...oh well sorry. I love smith.
